Frank Abagnale Quotes

He has never been more than two steps ahead of the law.

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison.

Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.

The first period of getting famous was incredibly strange to me and really fun at the beginning because you didn't realise the consequences of anything. You could say or do whatever you wanted and it just didn't matter.

You can run but you can't hide

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

She said people found running to something easier than running from something.

I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.

It seems like Michael Vick is going to jail for dog fighting. Hopefully, they won't have guard dogs.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

Kitten, you need to make a decision. Either we stay here and behave or we leave now and I promise you”—his voice dipped lower and the words fell against my lips—“if we leave, I won’t behave.

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.